They say that the third time’s the charm, but I don’t know if I would apply that to the third WordCamp conference in San Francisco that took place today. While it may partially have been that maybe I’ve gotten a little bit used to it, now that I’ve been there a few times, a lot of changes happened this year that I didn’t really think were that much for the better. And so my analysis and recap of this year’s WordPress event begins…
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Tags: 2008, Automattic, BarCAmp, Blogging, conference, event, rant, San Francisco, WordCamp, WordPress

I’m at WordCamp 2008 today in San Francisco, and I’m looking forward to having an interesting but relaxing time. I have no video camera this year and no podcast interviews that I’m going to be doing today, which means that this year I actually plan to enjoy the conference.

I’m volunteering at the T-shirt counter today until 11:00, after which I’ll be free to go out an enjoy the conference. I’ll also be taking pictures and putting them on my Flickr photostream today, so you can keep an eye there.

If you’re visiting my blog as a WordCamper, I hope you enjoy my blog and are interested in subscribing. I’m also interested in finding people interested in guest blogging on my blog in the near future, so if you would be interested, please leave a comment to this post and I’ll get in touch with you!

WordCampers last year may remember when one Dr. David Klein went around WordCamp taking pictures of people and then making caricatures of them. Well, this year, he’s doing something different; he’s getting a whole bunch of WordCamp bloggers to do little mini-games on their blog. I’m going to be doing one on this blog starting at 2:15 PM, lasting for about 15 minutes, and is exclusively for WordCamp visitors to participate in (and win a prize, possibly), so check back at 2:15 as defined by the handy clock on the top of my blog.

So now, on to WordCamp!

Tags: 2008, Blogging, conference, event, San Francisco, WordCamp, WordPress

Okay, it’s my turn to participate in the WordCamp Games, sponsored by one Dr. David Klein of San Diego Chiropractic. So, without further ado, here’s the game:

Come up with new words for “comment.”

Comment is turning into one of those somewhat overused words, not only on blogs, but on forums and many, many other places. This challenge is to come up with as many new words for “comment” as you can think of–the person with the most words that can be verified by dictionary.com and make some amount of sense (in other words, “asparagus” is not a word that would be much of a replacement for “comment”) will be the winner of this contest.

You have until 2:30 PM PDT (as defined by the handy-dandy little clock on the front page of my blog) to leave a comment here with your list of words, at which point the comments will be closed. I will post the winner here shortly thereafter once I have verified that all of their words qualify, and you’ll get instructions on how to claim your prize from Dr. David.

Note to DK: I’m providing five extra minutes since this game is in the middle of Matt’s State of the Word and is a little bit harder–sorry to keep you waiting. I’ll try to have the winner listed here by 2:40-2:45.

So what are you waiting for! Hie thee hence to the comments section and share your suggestions for what they should be called instead!

The winner: is Dr. David Klein, the only one who submitted anything before time ran out.

Tags: comments, game, San Francisco, WordCamp

Lorelle VanFossen presented an amazingly excellent session at WordCamp about connecting with your readers when you blog. This was an excellent conference which I’m so sorry that I missed, due to my stupidity of scheduling something at the same time as her session. Nevertheless, if you’re a blogger and you’re at all interested in really having your blog mean something to your readers, you HAVE to check out this session. I’m now rating it the best session of the whole weekend at WordCamp.
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Tags: Blogging, Connections, Lorelle VanFossen, Revver, San Francisco, Video, WordCamp, WordPress